Vehicle-lamp-mounting device



Jill 14, 1925.

c. RYDER VEHICLE LAMP MOUNTING DEVICE Filed Oct. 30. 1922 Ju a/v70:

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Patented July 14, 1925.

1,545,698 um'rso STATES, PATENT CHARLES RYDER, or CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY iuns'NE ASSIGNMENTS, roman THOS. J. CORGORAN LAMP 00., or CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION or onro.

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Application filed. October 30, 1922. Seria1No.'597,7,62.

ToalZ whom it may canoe m:

Be it known that I, CHARLES RYDER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle- Lamp-Mounting Devices, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specification' to the equipment of a car, thereby provid-' ing a means formounting a new style of lamp, which would not fit properly with the mounting equipment furnished with the vehicle.

My object is to provide a cross bar which may be used with vehicles already built or made part of the equipment of motor vehicles in the first place, and which is adjustable to a very wide range of vehicles without modification.

This adjustability to various makes of vehicles in its best form requires a universal form of mounting the ends of the cross bar to the bracket elements associated with the fender brackets. It best requires a bar which is adjustable for length. It best requires a lamp mounting adjustable for position in front or behind the bar, and a bracket device which can be shifted from left to right to control further the position of the ends of the cross bar with relation to the vehicle.

These various points are all taken care of in my invention, and I accomplish them and the objects above stated by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the mounting of the device of my invention on fender brackets.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the bar mounting plates,

Figure 3 is a like view of-oneof theuniversal joint members. I

Figure 4 is a like view of one of the lamp supporting bar socket pieces.

Figure 5 is a perspective View of part ofthecross bar.

for purposes of illustration, the parts 1 and 2 are the left and right hand fender brackets of a motor vehicle. As is usual, these brackets are positioned'bythe builder of the vehicle in the most effective point Inthe example of my invention selected for support of the fender and atan angle j to suit the design of fender, and'natura-lly no two cars use a'fender bracket which is alike in angle or position, unless they happen to use exactly the same fender, inexactly the same position, with reference tojthe chassis. 7 i As mounting plates for my cross bar I provide the plates 3 and l, formedas a left and a right, The plate 3 has an arm eX--.

tending from "one end thereof, as at 3, which is directed downwardly and to the left. The plate a has a like arm, as at P, directed downwardly and to the right. Each arm turns outwardly in a direction away from the plate, at its lower end, and is equipped with a unitary ball 5. Each plate has elongated slots 6, 6, therein adapted tore-' ceive the mounting bolts 7 to be found in the fender brackets in the vehicle, and regularly used to mount the tenders or mount a replaced lamp bracket on the fenders.

For engaging the balls of the two mounting plates I provide ball socket members formed of halves 8, 8, and having extensions of semi-cylindrical nature at 9, 9. These two members are adapted to be held together over the balls by means of bolts 10, which have av clamping action on the ball and also on the cross bar, as will be noted.

The ball socket portions 8, 8, are cut away at 11, to permit of the entrance of the ball arms and to permit latitude of movement of the ball arms without requiring an open relation between the socket portions.

The cross bar 12 is of any usual design,

such as a piece of pipe, which will fit slidably within the extensions 9, 9, of the ball socket'members. There will be two or three inches of adjustability of the cross bar in each ball socket extension, giving more than Ill to fit snugly over the 'extended ends of the ball socket members, when same are located about the cross bar. The lamp rods are set throngh the apertures 16 in the collars and bolted doWn fast, thereby clamping the collars over the ball socket pieces and adding to the'grasp of-these pieces on the cross red. The effect of the split ball socket, extensions also tends to hold the lamp mount? ng collars v ry tightly p i on- It will be observed that the collars may be placed on the cross rod, or rather the ball socket arms, with either the bolt holes to the fro t or ea ofth cres a va Also the said collars may be set in any d sired P si ion eireu fere i lly f its mounting devices, thereby providing a quick an easy Way to t he amps, as o a g arity of he eam of ight- 11; will be noted that the slant of the mounting plates, dependent upon the motor vehicle structure on Which they are to be m un d, fle n afiee t e Pos t n o th cross bar, because of the. universal joint.

Also it Will be noted thatby shifting the mennting plates from left'to right, the ball rm may be mad to x nd .r a ar y f the plates on both sides or forwardly, as may be demanded to make a fit.

In a ll-shaped radiator the cross bar Will have tobe bent at its central portion to clear the apex of the radiator. Also, as stated, the mounting of the cross bar makes it adjustable for length. In practice it Will not be necessary to machine the balls, because a binding grasp on the balls is to be desired, once the parts are clamped over them.

, As stated, I have attempted to describe but one illustration of my invention in the above specification, the novelty of which I Will expr i e laim t fellow a J Having thus described my invention, What I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

A lamp mounting device comprising a crossbar, mounting elements tor the cross bar, and universal joint connections bfil ween the mounting elements and the crossbar, each universal jointconnection comprising a ball member on the mounting element, a split all sock .1 the bar r adju -a il y long i tudinally of the bar, and a lam monnting collar mounted over the split socret member and arranged for rotatability' of the eollar on the socket in a plane transversely of'the axis of the bar, said collar beingadapted-to clamp the socket in adjusted position on the bar and simultaneously therewith to mount alamp rigidly and tocla-mp itself against rotation from adjusted position relatively to CHARLES more.

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